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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$24,170 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$115,233 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Doctor's Degree School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, nursing was the most popular one in Maryland. In total, 4,104 people earned a degree or certificate in the field from a school in Maryland.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which nursing program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Maryland to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nursing majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Nursing

#1

Salisbury University

Salisbury, MD

Our 2023 rankings named Salisbury University the best value school in Maryland for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Salisbury is a moderately-sized public school located in the small suburb of Salisbury.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Salisbury are $10,529 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Salisbury is ranked #1 for overall quality for nursing in Maryland.

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#2

Coppin State University

Baltimore, MD

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Coppin State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in the city of Baltimore, Coppin is a public college with a small student population.

Coppin graduate students pay an average of $7,902 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Coppin did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Maryland - Baltimore helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in Maryland. Located in the large city of Baltimore, UMB is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMB are $17,046 per year.

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#4

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in the city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Johns Hopkins graduate students pay an average of $61,202 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Johns Hopkins is ranked #2 for overall quality for nursing in Maryland.

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Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 11,477
New York 17,708
New Jersey 5,648
Delaware 1,267
District of Columbia 990

Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 266,651
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 16,104
Nursing Administration 9,838
Nursing Practice 7,992
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 5,092
Nursing Science 4,600
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 2,287
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing 2,021
Nurse Anesthetist 1,936
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing 1,883
Critical Care Nursing 773
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing 563
School Nursing 553
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 509
Clinical Nurse Leader 444
Clinical Nurse Specialist 419
Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing 331
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing 181
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 57
Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing 53
Palliative Care Nursing 14
Forensic Nursing 14

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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